Education News Round-Up May 17th

Tom Bishop is 11 and deaf. The specialist teacher he had was a “life-line”, say his family.Read more

Exams: How do the new 9-1 GCSE grades work?

Thousands of teenagers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are revising hard as they sit their GCSEs. But, in England, there have been major changes, with a new 9-1 grading system being phased in to reflect a more demanding curriculum. So what’s the new grading system all about?